Maybe you're not interested in football. Maybe you prefer your Sundays productive or peaceful. If so, then this interview is for you. Here's Craig Harling on Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Why aren't there more realistic portrayals of scientists in literary fiction? Cell biologist and novelist Jennifer Rohn founded LabLit.com, a website that's at the center of the new movement calling for more and better science in fiction.
You can trace the history of the 1960's through its iconic music festivals: Newport '65, Monterey '67, Denver '69, Woodstock, and Altamont. Historian Craig Werner was there and says those festivals changed a lot more than American music.
In all this talk about the future, we should probably remember that the past repeats itself. Here's lauded Latin American author, Eduardo Galeano reading from his “Children of the Days.”
You can also listen to our extended conversation with him.
Shakespeare expert Stephen Greenblatt says Shakespeare believed all rulers suffered from insomnia.
Samuel Clemens was an energetic and passionate man who traveled the world and created a new American idiom.
The novelist and feminist critic talks about tackling her trolls and “writing to the point of uncomfortability.”
The question of how and why we come to believe lies fascinates filmmaker Errol Morris.
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